Frisina's finale a dandy

LAS VEGAS – In the final football game of his career, Boise State senior kicker Michael Frisina finally got the chance he'd been waiting for forever.

One kick. Game on the line. Win or lose.

"I've seen a lot of my friends growing up through the years that I've known from kicking get game-winning opportunities. Man, I wonder what that would be like?" Frisina said.

"That must be awesome."

That's not the word Boise State fans would use. Given the cruel, cruel memories of misses past, dread would be a more apt description. Missed field goals are scars carried by the Broncos.

Frisina didn't attempt those wayward kicks against Nevada in 2010 and TCU in 2011.

He wanted the chance, though.

Never — not on the freshman team or the junior varsity team, not on the varsity team at Brea Olinda High or at Saddleback Junior College, not in his two-year career at Boise State — had Frisina been called upon to win a game.